Friday, August 21, 2015

Americans: Too Fat To Fight

The United States literally has a "growing" national security problem, and it one that has been trending negatively for years: Namely, a growing percentage of American youth are, to put it bluntly, too fat to fight.

According to a new report issued recently by a conglomerate of former and retired military leaders, America's obesity epidemic is causing severe recruiting problems because one-in-three young adults do not meet weight requirements.MORE

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SECURITY NOTICE

“Keep the people ignorant and afraid and control and power becomes a detail – a self-generating byproduct of the people’s hysteria.”… “The universal methodology of the tyrant is always incrementalism." Derek R Audette

Chief Nose Wetter

Bullshit

Cognitive Dissonance

"Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn't fit in with the core belief."- Frantz Fanon

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